Baylis Road

Baylis Road is a thoroughfare in Lambeth, London running between Westminster Bridge Road to the southwest and Waterloo Road to the northeast before continuing northeast as The Cut. The road was originally named Oakley Street, and it was the site of the 16 November 1802 revolutionary conspiracy of Edward Marcus Despard during the Napoleonic Wars. It was later renamed after Old Vic Theatre manager Lilian Baylis (1874-1937), and it came to be home to the Campbell Buildings, a Victorian estate which served as a squat for the punk community from the late 1970s to the early 1980s, when it was demolished.